OSU students, citizens must be held responsible for violence Sherrod Brown is just another ruthless warlord
Both the city of Columbus and Ohio State University have the responsibility of protecting its citizens and their students.
The unwarranted attacks are not what Columbus is. We have a diverse population, and we should be appalled by what is going on. Students committing antisemitic violence against others must be expelled.
Citizens committing antisemitic violence must be held responsible.
Columbus is a great city don’t let these acts define Columbus.
Bary Alan Leeman, Bexley
I was once proud to call Sherrod Brown my senator.
I once considered him a rare bastion of integrity and basic human decency in a state whose increasingly far right politics are completely at odds with my personal values. I felt listened to when Senator Brown responded directly to my writings in the Dispatch with handwritten letters, and genuinely believed him to be a respectable human being.
But I recently saw dozens of premature babies pulled from their incubators and struggling for their lives following the bombing of a Palestinian hospital. I’ve seen a man wailing as he carried a child’s severed torso in his arms.
I’ve seen a boy whose head had been blown open, with no brains left inside. I’ve seen a Palestinian father gathering up the severed limbs of his dead children in plastic bags.
And for more than a month now, I’ve watched as Brown along with the rest of America’s corrupt leadership has sanctioned the wholesale destruction of Palestinian life by Israel’s fascist government, using American-made bombs to annihilate over 10,000 innocent children and civilians.
I was once proud to call Sherrod Brown my senator.
But now I realize he’s just another ruthless warlord with blood on his hands. So long as the demand of millions for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza goes unmet, the majority of Americans, who oppose this indiscriminate slaughter being carried out in our name, are without representation in our government.
Aaron Dunbar, Lowell